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Synopsis: It seems everyone is trying to get into heaven; at least those whose time is up. For Lance Barton, a struggling comedian and bicycle messenger, it's the last thing on his mind. His due date upstairs is 50 years away. In the meantime, he's got big dreams to pursue on Earth, such as landing a slot at the final Amateur Night Contest at the famed Apollo Theatre. Lance's has one little problem though - he ain't that funny. Thanks to an over-cautious emissary from heaven, Mr. Keyes, he's going to get hit (literally) with a much bigger problem. Showing that even God has difficulty finding good help these days, the inept minion mistakenly plucks Lance from a traffic accident - before it takes place. Transporting him to the Pearly Gates, or more accurately, the velvet roped-lines of the hottest club around, the error is finally addressed by Mr. King, the streetwise, no-nonsense head angel who manages the place from his plush windowed office. Since returning to his own body on Earth is impossibl
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Director(s): Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz
Production: Paramount Pictures
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.4
Metacritic:
32
Rotten Tomatoes:
20%
PG-13
Year:
2001
87 min
$63,095,559
Website
453 Views


Another G-Shock done | In your Benz

Another dime piece | That you can show all your friends

You can call me crazy | say I'm insecure

But I don't wanna be | just another girl

What if I was white | Skin the same color as Eminem

With blond hair and blue eyes | The whole shebang

I know one thing, police | wouldn't always be watchin' me

Pullin' me over for nothing | Constantly jockin' me

Yellow Cabsin the city

I wouldn't need collateral | to buy property if I was white

Wouldn't matter | If I was rich or poor

Security wouldn't follow me around the | store like I'm gonna steal somethin'

Because I'm black, I rob

And automatically assume | I ain't got no job

On my own land | Feel like an immigrant

If I was white, I wouldn't have | thought O.J. was innocent

If I was white, What if he was white | What if he was white

- Yo, think about that for a minute | - What if he was white

- Wow | - What if he was white

- What if he was white, white, white | - What if he was white

- What if he was white | - What if he was black

What if he was white

- What if he were white | - What if he was white, white, white

If I was white, it'd be | a different world for me

If I was white, hmm | What shade would I be

Would I be redneck or skinhead | preppy or high-class

You'd probably live in a trailer park | And be white trash

In any case, there'd be | an illside, right

But there's a good and a bad | side of bein' white

What's up, my brother, De La Soul Pete | I have two left feet

Even if I was white | I'd still have a better chance

Is it a myth or would I | really have a little

If I was white | I'd probably listen to hard rock

And cover my ears | Whenever I heard hip-hop

What if he was white | What if he was white

- What if he was white | - What if he was white

What if he was white | What if he was white, white, white

- What if he was white | - What if he was white

What if he was white

Mm, what if he was white

- What if he were white, white, white | - Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo

If I was white, I probably | wouldn't even think the same

I'd watch tennis and golf | And bet on hockey games

Wear suits and ties | And go to work everyday

If I was white I couldn't live | Around my way

And there probably wouldn't | Never even be an Amish

Smokin' on a Marlboro | Instead of a Newport

I'd live in Long Island | Instead of New York

If I was white | I probably couldn't dunk

'Cause everybody know | white men can't jump

And I probably wouldn't be able | To go to the Tree Spot

'Cause all them dreads | would think I'm a cop

If he was white | What if he was white

What if he was white | What if he was white

- Yo, you can't even say that | - What if he was white

What if he was white | What if he was white

What if he was white, white, white | white, white, white, white, white

Yo, what if I was white

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Christopher Julius Rock is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, producer and director. After working as a stand-up comedian and appearing in supporting film roles, Rock came to wider prominence as a cast member of Saturday Night Live in the early 1990s. more…

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